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This is the Competition Announcement; you can upload a maximum 1,5 minutes length video on the web platform www.booktrailerfilmfestival.eu, from the 1st January to the 1st March 2020. Join in and share!

Il THE BOOKTRAILER FILM FESTIVAL is promoted by ‘A. Calini’ Scientific High School in collaboration with

The official information channels for the Booktrailer Film Festival include: the interactive web platform:
www.booktrailerfilmfestival.eu, the connected Facebook and Instagram page, and the official festival newsletter.
The Booktrailer Film Festival is a place for meeting and discussing literature and the ways it has been promoted
through cinematographic language. It engages schools, libraries, bookshops, associations, and websites aimed at the promotion of cinema and literature. Created by ‘A. Calini’ in 2007, from 2016, to its tenth edition, the festival has become ‘European’, with the involvement of schools now partners in an Erasmus+ project. The goal is to extend the practice of the booktrailer as a tool to promote reading among new countries

An important moment of the Festival is a contest which requires the upper secondary students, and from
2018-2019 also the lower secondary students, to independently produce the booktrailers

The lower and upper secondary school students’ engagement and creativity are involved here to create short
videos aimed at spreading love and interest for books.

The Staff of Booktrailer Film Festival

A national jury of experts, for each country involved, proceeds to designate winners of the ‘Jury Prize’ and the awarding of prizes. Each national jury selects from a minimum of two, to a maximum of five booktrailers that
will take part in the European competition.

A jury of visually impaired experts, chaired by an Italian film director and script writer autonomously designates the winner of the “Accessibility Prize”. The Accessibility Prize is sponsored by UIC (Italian Visually Impaired People Union)A European jury, composed of two teachers and two students from each partner school and chaired by the Italian jury president, assigns the European Teachers and Students’ Jury Award to the best European booktrailer

A working team, composed of teachers, students, parents and experts, organizes the competition, which is to be repeated annually, and all of the initiatives related to the festival.

A scientific committee, composed of some leading figures in different fields (cinema, literature, art, music, advertising) and chaired by the Headmaster, guarantees the cultural quality of the initiative. The names and biographies of the members of the scientific committee and jury can be found online

Who can take part

Individual students, groups of students, or entire classes of lower and upper secondary schools can participate in the Booktrailer Film Festival Competition, as long as they have competed the registration form available on the competition website: www.booktrailerfilmfestival.eu between January 1st and March 1st, 2020, in their respective sections.

The booktrailers, unpublished and not published elsewhere before the award ceremony, must be sent to the above website by March 1st 2020.

The choice of the book to be reworked is up to the participant(s).

How to sign up for the contest

The sign up request is free and it must be completed, exclusively online, from January 1st to March 1st, 2020, through the festival website, www.booktrailerfilmfestival.eu, and exclusively in the section related to the corresponding school level after having registered a personal account.

The form must be completed in all its parts, including the book synopsis, the credits, and the disclosure license; otherwise, it will be excluded from the contest.

In regard to the protection of copyrights, instructions are available on the website. Only the booktrailer’s author(s) will be responsible for any possible violation.

The booktrailer must be published in an unlisted form, so that it is accessible to the Booktrailer Film Festival juries and technical staff, but not visible to the public until the official announcement of the winners.

The booktrailer must be unpublished; otherwise, it will be excluded from the competition.

The authors of the works who intend to participate in the contest must:

post the link of the booktrailer, published on Youtube in an unlisted form (not to be confused with private; this will prevent the booktrailer from being seen elsewhere other than on Youtube), with the name(s) of the author(s)• fill in the registration form with all the information required, including the information about the booksynopsis, credits and the disclosure license of the audiovisual in competition.

The registration form must be filled in, along with the booktrailer’s uploading on YouTube in an unlisted form. It is not possible to perform these two operations at different times.

Participants are responsible for compilation errors, including those that are related to the link provided for viewing the booktrailer. The Booktrailer Film Festival’s staff isn’t responsible for checking and reporting these errors. After the submission of the registration form and the uploading of the booktrailer, it won’t be possiblein any case to modify the submitted information, even if it is clear that a mistake has been made.

Every student can only present one booktrailer. In the case of group works, the participants are allowed to present only one other booktrailer individually or in other groups.

must be linked from January 1st to March 1st, 2020 to the contest website upon registration and after having been published on Youtube in an unlisted form;

must be unpublished;

cannot be disclosed, or shall be invalid

can be in any foreign language;

must have English subtitles, embedded in the video according to the Youtube uploading procedure, but not overlaid in the booktrailer;

must be the result of the students’ autonomous work (teachers can only play a cultural stimulation role in the production of the work);

must have the same title as the book.

Jury award and audience award

The contest, reserved to lower and upper secondary schools, awards distinct prizes at the unquestionable judgment of the different juries:

three awards given by the Italian Jury with the possibility of an ex-aequo between the first and the second prize (secondary schools only);

a prize for accessibility awarded by the Italian Jury (secondary schools only);

national prizes awarded by the national juries elected by partner schools in Croatia, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, and Spain;

European Teachers and Students’ Jury Award;

Audience Award, during the award ceremony in Brescia.

The competition reserved to the lower secondary school awards

A first prize awarded by the Junior Italian Jury,

Three special Mentions with prizes other than money

AWARDING PRIZES

SECONDARY SCHOOLS

All prizes are made public on May 7th, 2020, in Brescia, home of the festival and of the high school “A. Calini”, which is the promoter and organizer of the festival, according to the program published online.

The members of the Italian Jury for the upper secondary schools will meet on April 6th, 2020, at 15. They will evaluate the booktrailers and will award a cash prize to the three best works as follows:

1st prize: €1000 and a plate

2nd prize: €600 and a parchment

3rd prize: €400 and a parchment

In the case of an ex-aequo between the first and the second prize, the amount of the first prize will be added to that of the second and the figure obtained will be divided between the two classified booktrailers. The third prize will remain the same.

Further mentions and/or prizes could be given for the works of particular value.

Because of the attention that the Festival pays to the theme of accessibility, the Italian Jury will be committed to give a special mention and 200 euros to the most accessible booktrailer for blind or partially-sighted people, with the support of the Unione Italiana Ciechi e Ipovedenti of Brescia (Italian Visually Impaired People Union).

The award ceremony will take place publicly at ‘Teatro Sociale di Brescia’ on the evening of May 7th, 2020, in the presence of one guest star whose name will be announced on the festival’s website, Facebook, and official newsletter.

During the same evening, an Audience Award will be given. The public will express one preference by voting on a card for one of the booktrailers also chosen among the European ones. The prize will be given before the announcement of the Jury’s choice award, and it consists of €100 and books from the Marcos y Marcos publishing house.

AWARDING PRIZES

LOWER SECONDARY SCHOOLS

The members of the Italian Jury for the lower secondary schools will meet on April 6th, 2020, at 15. They will evaluate the booktrailers and will award a cash prize of 300 euros to the best work. Further mentions will be given, as well as further prizes other than money.The award ceremony will take place publicly at ‘Auditorium San Barnaba’ on the morning of May 7th, 2020.

AWARDING PRIZES

EUROPEAN JURY

The members of the European Jury, composed by two teachers and two students from each school partner, will exclusively operate online, by selecting from a minimum of two to a maximum of four booktrailers per country within April 10th 2020 and then awarding the winning booktrailer within April 20th 2020. The prizes awarded by the European Jury consist of a plate with motivation on an eventual parchment.

CRITERIA FOR AWARDING PRIZES

Jury Prizes: Juries indicate the winners and the selection of the booktrailers to show, independently and at its unquestionable judgment, based on the following criteria listed in no order of priority:

clarity (communicative competence)

originality (creative competence)

use of technology (digital competence)

text comprehension (literary competence)

product completeness and resources employment (managing competence)

All of the awards are accompanied by a written motivation that is made public during the awards ceremony and that will appear on the website.

For the Audience award, the people’s jury, composed of the audience present on the evening of the awards ceremony, operates according to heterogeneous and personal criteria.

Final informations

The registration form for the festival implies the unconditional acceptance of this announcement.

The calendar and the schedule of the screenings are the responsibility of the festival.

The Booktrailer Film Festival working team, that is to say the organizer and promoter of the event, can make decisions on any matters not included in this notice.

The booktrailers received will become part of the Booktrailer Film Festival archive for any future educational and research purposes.

The Booktrailer Film Festival reserves the right to network and / or use the booktrailer on a royalty free basis, only for cultural purposes and not for profit, to promote cultural exchanges, special projects, collaborations with other institutions and organizations, etc.

The Booktrailer Film Festival invites all of its participants to share their booktrailers online, through the most appropriate channels, only after the awards ceremony and their upload to the site for public viewing.

The works selected for the competition may also be published online without any commercial purpose on the Booktrailer Fillm Festival web platform www.booktrailerfilmfestival.eu, in connection with the site of Calini High school www.liceocalini.gov.it and other partner schools.

All rights related to the work are owned by the authors. Responsibility for any property rights violation through the use of images, sounds, or videos is the responsibility of the Booktrailer authors.

The Court of Brescia is responsible for any dispute.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.
Publication and products reflect the views only of the Book Trailer Film Festival Consortium, the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.